* The elite soldier guys are told to work with the support stuff to figure things out. Would I be right in guessing that the support staff hardly ever figured in the old cartoon? In episode 4 one perky young researcher figures out how COBRA is managing communications. I like that.

* And that "how" is neat. Stratospheric communication ballutes! That's on-the-drawing-board technology, not made up BS.

Oh man, those jetpacks on the HALO jump in 6, that's straight of the toys, isn't it? I think there's one or two lurking in a box back at my parents house. All those poor, paraplegic JOEs with chunks of their spines missing so they could have various packs slapped on, though that was a moot point once the rubber bands inevitably broke and they lost everything from the hips down.

It does seem like the show is focusing on the fact that Cobra has a lot of tech that NO ONE should have yet. I wonder if/how Warren is gonna explain Zartan's teleportation/cloaking device/whatever that was.

So Warren, having admitted to not having seen any of the original cartoons (and probably never read the comics or bought the toys), how hard was it to immerse yourself in the subject matter to get the tone right and feel comfortable enough to break it all apart and build it up again?

I love the way Warren spices up the episodes with the occasional dollop of real-world cool facts. I suppose it's a little too much to hope that the poor fuckers going on a 20-mile free fall packed their chutes, yes?

Yeah I'm pretty sure they had 'chutes on their backs. It wouldn't make sense to go back down by balloon all the way, though I think the light air would let them get plenty fast enough to burn up if they jumped from where they were, so those two what fell are fucked. God damn that whole sequence was such a pure thrill to watch, jumping around on wires at the edge of gravity. The only thing missing was a cameo by Philippe Petit.